Notes

Chapter 2  Admit That You Are Stuck and Struggling

1. Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013), 94.

Chapter 3  Change the Way You Think

1. Rick Warren, http://pastorrick.com/devotional/english/full-post/to-change-how-you-act-change-the-way-you-think.

Chapter 4  Face the What-Ifs Even If You Are Afraid

1. R. V. G. Tasker, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Tyndale Bible Commentaries, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961), 168.

2. R. T. France, in William MacDonald, Believer’s Bible Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), 266.

3. Jim Elliot quote, http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/faq/20.htm.

4. Warren Wiersbe, The Wiersbe Bible Commentary, Old Testament (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2007), 661.

Chapter 5  Let Go of What You Can’t Control

1. University of Rochester Medical Center Health Encyclopedia, https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=3051.

Chapter 6  Rise above Disappointment

1. Charles Spurgeon quote, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1403154-god-is-too-good-to-be-unkind-and-he-is.

Chapter 7  Celebrate Your Scars as Tattoos of Triumph

1. Augustus M. Toplady, “Rock of Ages,” public domain.

2. C. H. Spurgeon, from a sermon delivered on Sabbath evening, January 30, 1859, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0254.htm.

Chapter 8  Decide to Start Again . . . and Again

1. Biblical Soul Care Harvest Bible Chapel, “Victory over the Shame of Sexual Abuse,” Association of Biblical Counselors (blog), Biblestudytools.com, https://www.biblestudytools.com/blogs/association-of-biblical-counselors/victory-over-the-shame-of-sexual-abuse.html.

2. Marcus Bockmuehl, The Epistle to the Philippians (London: A&C Black, 1997), 62.